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WOMEN OF OHIO 407 service to those who have sought her assistance and who at all times has enjoyed the confidence and respect of her professional colleagues and con- temporaries in Logan County. The Doctor is a daughter of John T. and Sarah U. (Llewellen) Richeson. The Taylor family was of Quaker stock and belonged to the branch of the family that came from the Brandywine. Her Grandfather and Grandmother Llewellen were natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively and the former was a noted hunter and trader of the early days. It was his daughter Cedora, a sister of Mrs. Sarah Richeson, who was one of the founders of Central Normal College at Danville, Ohio, where she held a professorship for twenty-four years. John T. Richeson, daughter of Dr. Richeson, was a brick manufacturer, who died in 1895, while his wife survived until 1926. They were the parents of seven children : Carrie A. ; Josie, the wife of Earl Carr and a resident of Lima, Ohio; Olive and Oliver, twins, who died at the age of six months; Martha, the wife of Earl Couch; Mary, deceased; and John Lloyd, who is in the office of the Big Four Railroad in Indianapolis, Indiana. After attending the grade schools and graduating from the high school of Bellefontaine, Dr. Richeson did normal school work at Danville, Indiana, pursuing both scientific and classical courses at the Central Normal College. She then enrolled as a medical student in Lebanon College, from which she was graduated in due time. She then opened an office in Bellefontaine, where she has since practiced and she has taken post-graduate work in the Poly- Clinic Hospital at Chicago, Illinois. From the beginning she gave her atten- tion largely to women and children, not as a specialist but as a general practioner. Her place in the profession was acknowledged by the male members of the calling from the start and when occasion demanded she helped her professional brethren in operations, for at that day there were not many nurses available. She now has a nephew who is an interne in the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland. Dr. Richeson belongs to the Logan County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations, and is always well informed on those subjects which indicate the progressive trend in medical and surgical practice. The Doctor worked a great deal for suffrage in the period before the women were enfranchised and she has also served as secretary of the League of Women Voters. She attends the Methodist Church. She enjoys painting in water colors, making hooked rugs, crocheting and doing other fancy work and to these largely devotes the hours not demanded in her professional work, which has been her first consideration since she opened an office in Bellefontaine. JOSEPHINE RILEY For more than thirty-eight years JOSEPHINE RILEY has en the practice of medicine in Chillicothe, opening an office here in 1901. gaged in Through